A Discussion on Multimedia

A Discussion on Multimedia Multimedia, or mixed-media, systems offer presentations that integrate effects existing in a variety of formats, including text, graphics, animation, audio, and video. Such presentations first became commercially available in very primitive form in the early 1980s, as a result of advances that have been made in digital compression technology-- particularly the difficult area of image compression. Multimedia online services are obtainable through telephone/computer or television links, multimedia hardware and software …

…tool, and not as a teacher. It should be thought of as an educational assistant (in the school setting) and not a game machine. Computers have unlimited possibilities, and we should incorporate them into our schools. But in doing this, we must realize that computers should not be the main focus, education and the quality of the teachers should be. For any case, without solid teaching and instruction, computers and other such resources become useless.